Some issues draw more attention than others on the Bitbucket issue tracker, and a lot of that attention manifests itself as simple “+1” comments — the quickest, easiest way for people to voice their agreement with a problem or idea. Unfortunately these comments tend to clutter the issue, and spam people with useless notifications.

During our last ShipIt hackathon, one of our developers decided to do something about this and added voting capability to issues in Bitbucket! We know this is going to improve our interaction with our users, and we’re pretty sure anyone with a public Bitbucket issue tracker will feel the same way.

When using the issue list view you’ll see the total votes for a particular issue, and have the option to sort by votes. As a bonus, we did a migration of any “+1” issue comments over to votes to help get things started. Happy voting!